Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - descendant
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Descendant
descendant
(descendants) 1. Someone’s descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. ? ancestor N-COUNT: usu pl, usu with poss 2. Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it. His design was a descendant of a 1956 device... ? ancestor N-COUNT: usu N of n
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I. adjective also descendent Etymology: Middle English dessendaunte, from Anglo-French ~, from Latin descendent-, descendens, present participle of descendere Date: circa 1555 1. moving or directed downward 2. proceeding from an ancestor or source II. noun also descendent Etymology: French & Latin; French ~, from Late Latin descendent-, descendens, from Latin Date: 1600 1. one descended from another or from a common stock 2. one deriving directly from a precursor or prototype ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (often foll. by of) a person or thing descended from another (a descendant of Charles I). Etymology: F, part. of descendre (as DESCEND) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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потомок; наследник - direct descendant - immediate descendant - parametric descendant - proper descendant - ultimate descendant ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. потомок direct (lineal) descendant —- прямой потомок descendant of an ancient family —- потомок (отпрыск) старинного рода 2. происходящий, ведущий свое происхождение 3. редк. спускающийся; нисходящий ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago (direct descendant (=from one father or mother to the next)) (He reckons he's a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.) (- compare ancestor (1)) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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